From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 11:24:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199C737C167 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA21579; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:42 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000316112442.A21205@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <8aorf2$htp$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003152209.XAA22951@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <4.3.2.20000316130422.00a98d90@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000316130422.00a98d90@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > >Also take into account that many people are downloading and > >recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip > >by default. > > And then they can xfer it over to their FBSD system, etc.. You're suggesting that folks who burn CDs in order to install FreeBSD should have a FreeBSD machine handy? (Blah, anyway. This is a silly discussion. Why are people who are bandwidth-starved downloading ISOs in the first place?) -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message